Something different musically

Last night I was invited to check out a different kind of musical experience then I’m use to. My first question was “what kind of music does he play?” and my second question was “where will the show be?”… I was told “it’s hard to explain but it’s kind of jazz with a mix of classical and modern without any vocals” and “it will be at the Downey Theatre”. I was kind of nervous with such a vast description and “no vocals” but I decided to go for it and check it out. It was going to be a 50/50 chance if I liked it.

All I can say is WOW!!! It was nothing like I was expecting. The artist/band name is “Sebastian Sidi”. Basically the band consists of the following instruments and people: Piano/Keyboards (Sebastian Sidi), Percussion (Eric Samson), Drums (Derrick Pontier), Guitar (Geoff Cassayre), Mike Roper (Bass Guitar), Flute (Sharlin Darlin), Violin (Aurisa Smolarski). In Sabastian’s bio he says “Throughout the years I’ve played various genres of music: Rap, Rock, Latin, Heavy Metal & Even played for a Church”.

The stage was set up like a major rock concert which was a good start with lots of lighting, lasers, ramps to run up and down, smoke machine, huge speakers and lots of other cool musical “stuff”. My seat was third row center! I could not have asked for a better seat. The music totally rocked… drums thundered, guitar had solid rhythms and screaming leads… the keyboards were also very good… he even played on a Grand Piano which was really cool. The whole band totally clicked as a team and everyone sounded so good! Even the sound mix was right on… no one over powered anyone. They played non-stop from 8:30pm until 12:30am with only one 10 minute intermission. Even everyone did a solo and the drummer and percussionist had a battle… it was so cool! One of the highlights of the night was meeting with whole band and getting them all to sign a cd for me… hehe… I’m such a groupie

Anyway, I just wanted to share my experience. I even ripped a small sample (MP3 - about 45 seconds) for you to download and check out. Let me know your thoughts and if you want to know more about this guy, let me know and I’ll give you more information.

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